Relational being : beyond self and community / Kenneth J. Gergen.

This book builds on two current developments in psychology scholarship and practice. The first centers on broad discontent with the individualist tradition in which the rational agent, or autonomous self, is considered the fundamental atom of social life. Critique of individualism spring not only fr...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Gergen, Kenneth J.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
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Table of Contents:
  • Prologue: Toward a new Enlightenment
  • From bounded to relational being. Bounded being ; In the beginning is the relationship ; The relational self ; The body as relationship : emotion, pleasure, and pain
  • Relational being in everyday life. Multi-being and the adventures of everyday life ; Bonds, barricades, and beyond
  • Relational being in professional practice. Knowledge as co-creation ; Education in a relational key ; Therapy as relational recovery ; Organizing : the precarious balance
  • From the moral to the sacred. Morality : from relativism to relational responsibility ; Approaching the sacred
  • Epilogue: The coming of relational consciousness.